The most surprising result of the US election is the previously unknown breadth and depth of knowledge in Australia about who voted for Trump, and why.
Beats me why the Yanks bother with their own polling etc when they could ask any Australian caller to talk back radio and letters to the editor about why he won.
Admittedly, there is no consistency in the wildly divergent views of these Australian experts on a nation most of them have never visited and about an electoral system of marvellous complexity which none of them understand, but when has accuracy ever been required in political commentary? Or abilty, knowledge, justice and honour ever been required to advance oneself in politics?
Yeah, that’s certainly all we need.
The professional politicians in the major and minor parties have half way fked this country for the past thirty years or so, so why don’t we let a bigoted amateur of modest intelligence and little knowledge completely fk it?
Might as well go out with a bang as with a whimper.
For those outside Australia who fortunately are unaware of Pauline Hanson, she’s a one trick pony who 20 years ago got herself elected on the threat of Asian immigration and other ill-informed bigotry destroying Australia, but has had a recent epiphany and now sees Muslim immigration as the real threat along with her usual other ill informed bigotry which is well received by people who don’t like to analyse issues and events or propose constructive solutions to social, political and economic problems but prefer to find scapegoats they can blame for everything that upsets them.
Surprisingly, the late Pauline still speaks to us from the grave, after being assassinated a couple of decades ago for expressing her views to a hostile nation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q_comd-IOQ
OOPS! She got a bit carried away there. Along with most of her other self-important, self-indulgent, ill-informed rants and bile. Apparently nobody could be bothered getting rid of her, which is a real pity when she’d gone to all that trouble to make her martyr ‘voice from the grave’ video.
The beauty of Australia is that not only do we tolerate these ornaments of lucid thought and expression, but we actually elect them to our national parliament to demonstrate that by electing dopes like her as well as the dopes in the major political parties we are an equal opportunity electorate.